{"id":8740,"date":"2010-09-15T10:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T10:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/09\/15\/carne-ross-an-independent-dipl\/"},"modified":"2010-09-15T10:36:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T10:36:23","slug":"carne-ross-an-independent-dipl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/carne-ross-an-independent-dipl\/","title":{"rendered":"Carne Ross: An independent diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a &#8220;freelance diplomat,&#8221; running a bold nonprofit that gives small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international relations. At the BIF-5 conference, he calls for a new kind of diplomacy that gives voice to small countries, that works with changing boundaries and that welcomes innovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/CarneRoss_2009P-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/CarneRoss-2009P.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=951&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=carne_ross_an_independent_diplomat;year=2009;theme=war_and_peace;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=Business+Innovation+Factory;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a &#8220;freelance diplomat,&#8221; running a bold nonprofit that gives small, developing and yet-unrecognized nations a voice in international relations. At the BIF-5 conference, he calls for a new kind of diplomacy that gives voice to small countries, that works with changing boundaries and that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/carne-ross-an-independent-dipl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carne Ross: An independent diplomat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2gY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}